A group of Tennessee moms created a brilliant Facebook page calling for the removal of Kevin Huffman, the state education commissioner.
The site is vivid, graphic, and highly charged with the fury of really angry moms.
One entry points out that Huffman likes to say that Kentucky does better than Tennessee, even though both have the same level of poverty. So the moms produced a comparison graph showing that Kentucky has no vouchers, no charters, and spends more per pupil than Tennessee.
Another entry posts the contract that Huffman awarded to his former employer, Teach for America. Thanks to Huffman’s largesse, TFA will pick up $7 million to send in ill-trained youngsters to teach in Tennessee’s neediest schools.
There is no power so great as the power of outraged moms. They are stronger than the Koch brothers, stronger than the Walton Family Foundation, stronger even than Bill Gates. When the lives of their children are at risk, they are a mighty and unstoppable force.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
There is also a petition against Huffman started by TN Momma Bears:
http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-hurting-our-schools-remove-kevin-huffman-as-the-appointed-tn-commissioner-of-education
This is fantastic…are these parents graphic designers? They have created and pulled together a group of the best stuff out there. WE need everyone to read and share what is out there from the public school perspective because the general public is being bombarded every day with information from the other side (and sadly I find teachers are even beginning to believe them).
It is fantastic. The graphics and cartoons really say it all.
As of this moment almost 4K likes. The infographics are mind-blowing. Now, I’m busy reading their powerful, indestructible wall.
I’ve been following the school merger issue in Memphis and I don’t even live there. It’s heartening.
In a nutshell, Memphis “ISD” voted to dissolve and become part of the better/richer county system that served suburban families.
Of course, Memphis “ISD” demanded and got a lot of their failed admins a seat at the merged district’s table, including TFA.
Suburban parents were appalled and rightly fearful to now have the cancerous influence of Memphis “ISD” admins/TFA/Broad/corruption looming over their children and their tax dollars.
So in July, suburban parents voted to start their own municipal districts, leaving Memphis ISD alone in the new “merged” district (suburb parents are stuck with the new merged district for one year, but then they will be free again).
Parents don’t want Broad, they don’t want TFA, they don’t want Rhee, they don’t want testing, they don’t want Gates.
Suburban parents in Memphis rejected all of that. I think the tide is slowly turning.
Good. No one in their right mind would want any Broad, Gates, or Rhee people running (destroying) their school district.
Great FB page!
the graphics are wonderful. I bet we could even get our teachers to read the boring, useless union papers if we had graphics like these in them……the funnies.
Go Tennessee Moms!
Awesome work, Tennessee Moms!
Yeah for moms.
I love it! This guy is literally putting TN 100 back, particularly with regard to what he has done with the teacher pay scale.
100 years back.
To quote something I heard Dr. Ravitch say in a speech, “I am a teacher, I have a family, and we vote.” We will not be voting to re-elect Governor Haslam because of Kevin Huffman.
Want to know where Huffman got all that money for TFA? He made every state university give back state grant money already allocated. Our UTK special ed program lost funds for 6 courses that were free, including books. The 2 institutes were designed for teachers who want to add-on a sped certificate or for teachers working on advanced degrees.
It is very true about the power of Moms.
Here is an interesting piece of history that shows just how strong Moms can be. During the Vietnam war, the first few years of protest were dominated by the “Hippies and Commies”. In late 1968, middle class, suburban moms started getting tired of having their kids sent off and killed for a questionable cause. Mothers Against the War was formed, and at that point politicians began to really pay attention.